{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/dorset-fire-services-combination-scheme-order-1996/schedule/paragraph-17",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/dorset-fire-services-combination-scheme-order-1996/schedule/paragraph-17.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/1996/2920",
  "legislation_title": "The Dorset Fire Services (Combination Scheme) Order 1996",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/dorset-fire-services-combination-scheme-order-1996",
  "path": "schedule/paragraph/17",
  "kind": "paragraph",
  "number": "17",
  "heading": null,
  "text": "(1) The Authority shall elect a chairman, and may elect a vice-chairman, from among its members.\n(2) The chairman and, if a vice-chairman is elected, the vice-chairman, shall, subject to paragraphs 13 to 16, hold office for a period of one year from the date of their election.\n(3) Sub-paragraph (2) shall not prevent a person who holds or has held office as chairman or vice-chairman, as the case may be, from being elected or re-elected to either of those offices.\n(4) On a casual vacancy occurring in the office of chairman or, if a vice-chairman has been elected, the vice-chairman, the Authority shall elect from its members a person to replace the chairman, and may so elect a person to replace the vice-chairman, as the case may be.\n(5) The election to replace the chairman under sub-paragraph (4) shall take place not later than the next following ordinary meeting of the Authority.",
  "extent": "E+W",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "Sch. para. 17 in force at 20.11.1996, see art. 1"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1996/2920/schedule/paragraph/17",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T12:31:50.063762+00:00"
  },
  "licence": "Open Government Licence v3.0",
  "licence_url": "https://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/doc/open-government-licence/version/3/",
  "attribution": "Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Source: legislation.gov.uk, The National Archives."
}